Senior Platform Engineer

The company and our mission:

Zartis is a global AI transformation and technology consulting partner where talented engineers and technologists work on cutting edge innovation. We partner with ambitious organizations to design, build, and scale technology solutions that deliver real impact.

Our teams bring deep expertise in AI driven platforms, secure API architectures, and cloud native engineering. You will work on meaningful projects that accelerate the adoption of advanced technologies, from strategy and discovery through to full product delivery, helping turn complex challenges into measurable outcomes.

With engineering hubs across EMEA and LATAM, and long term partnerships in financial services, healthcare and life sciences, and energy and climate, we offer opportunities to work on projects that truly matter. Here, you will not just build technology, you will drive business impact and grow your career alongside industry leaders.

We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to work on a project in the fashion industry.

The project:

Our teammates are talented people that come from a variety of backgrounds. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture based on trust and innovation.

You will be part of a distributed team developing new technologies to solve real business problems building and operating shared platform capabilities for application development teams.

We are looking for someone with good communication skills, ideally with experience making decisions, being proactive, used to building software from scratch, and with good attention to detail.

What you will do:

• Lead the evaluation and implementation of an API gateway solution for the platform

• Consolidate existing pipelines and create a blueprint covering security standards and best practices

• Apply and transfer API gateway knowledge across cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP)

• Contribute to building and operating shared platform capabilities for application development teams

What you will bring:

• Broad technical background across application development, cloud infrastructure, networking, security, and platform engineering

• Previous experience building or contributing to an Internal Developer Platform, developer portal, or shared cloud platform

• Hands-on experience with API gateway technologies such as Kong, Apache APISIX, Envoy, AWS API Gateway, Azure API Management, or similar

• Good understanding of API security, authentication and authorization, traffic management, rate limiting, resilience, service discovery, and observability

• Strong software engineering skills in Java or Kotlin

• Practical experience with cloud platforms, containers, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and observability

• Able to work exploratively with incomplete requirements and translate business or technical objectives into implementable solutions

• Experience evaluating technical options, creating prototypes, documenting trade-offs, and presenting recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders

• Used to taking end-to-end ownership in agile, cross-functional teams without fully specified tickets

• Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills; very good English (German is a plus)

Nice to have:

• Hands-on coding experience in Java or Kotlin

• Familiarity with cloud functions or serverless services (e.g. AWS Lambda)

• German language skills

What we offer:

• 100% Remote Work

• WFH allowance: Monthly payment as financial support for remote working.

• Career Growth: We have established a career development program accessible for all employees with a 360º feedback that will help us to guide you in your career progression.

• Training: For Tech training at Zartis, you have time allocated during the week at your disposal. You can request from a variety of options, such as online courses (from Pluralsight and Educative.io, for example), English classes, books, conferences, and events.

• Mentoring Program: You can become a mentor in Zartis or you can receive mentorship, or both.

• Zartis Wellbeing Hub (Kara Connect): A platform that provides sessions with a range of specialists, including mental health professionals, nutritionists, physiotherapists, fitness coaches, and webinars with such professionals as well.

• Multicultural working environment: We organize tech events, webinars, parties, and activities to do online team-building games and contests.